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There’s an old West Point quote that goes something like: The best laid battle plans are tossed out the window when the first shot gets fired. Startups are the same. Pretty much every new venture I’ve been involved with has gone through incredibly challenging “near death” experiences. While we...

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LAS VEGAS-- One of the many fitness and health tech companies exhibiting products at this year's Digital Experience showcase at CES was Zensorium, which demonstrated its flagship wellness product, the Tinke. A small, colored square with two round sensors, the Tinke is designed to measure heart rate, respiratory rate,...

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Co-founders Pejman Pour-Moezzi and Paul Javid My fiancee isn’t the jealous type but she likes to joke that I’m already married to my co-founder. Paul and I are three weeks into working full-time on our startup (details TBA), and we’re spending a ridiculous amount of time together. We’re bootstrapping, so that...

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Email is supposed to make modern life easier, but it is making workers more stressed than ever as they struggle to stay on top of hundreds of messages per day, according to researchers. Reading and sending emails prompts telltale signs of stress including elevated blood pressure, heart rate and levels...

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The 'always-on' connectivity of email on smartphones has become a life-destroying monster. You need help…One of the great cautionary adages of our culture is: "Be careful what you wish for; you might just get it." And it applies in spades to the kind of instantaneous, always-on connectivity that many of...

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Neumitra, a startup founded by neuroscientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has a big vision: It wants to help everyone stress less, no small feat in this turbo-charged world. The first step it’s making toward that aim is an app called “bandu,” which monitors your body’s stress levels...

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Insomniacs of the world, rejoice! A new and improved Sleep Time app arose today, including a refreshed dashboard, nature sounds, and customized playlists to lull people to sleep. The app is now available on Android, as well as iOS, and will help smartphone users around the world get the...

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Being active on Facebook, it appears, actually can get you that new job. Often job-seekers are told that it’s their acquaintances who will help them get a new job. A new study by Facebook data scientists, however, suggests exactly the opposite: job hunters with a strong, deep, and rich social...

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Finding jobs in today’s economy can sometimes be difficult. Often, people are reaching out to their friends and families for help in connecting them to that right job. So how does the world’s biggest social network play a part with job seekers? Today, Facebook released a study that took on...

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There may be a vague optimistic glow on the horizon, but it’s hardly like sunny boom times have returned to America. So after so many years of economic hardship, and so many unsettling changes to how we work and what sort of jobs are available, how are Americans coping? Has...

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High-tech sensors are everywhere. They alert us to spoiled food. They monitor our stress levels. And they’re blowing up in the health and fitness space, too, helping us track our key sleep and activity metrics. And now we have the Philips ErgoSensor Monitor, a desktop display that keeps an...

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Work is a place where deadlines, time management, and multitasking thrive. And no other industry feels that intense pressure more than tech. Tech companies are notorious for being fast-paced work spaces that produce stress-induced workers. New information from PayScale confirms that big tech companies cause their employees the most stress....

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LA’s thriving tech community is not letting up on its ongoing effort to make the rest of the country more fit and healthy. Launching today, LA-based FitKit prompts you to take a free lifestyle assessment quiz, and then doles out personalized guidance from nutritionists. The quiz was designed by nutrition experts,...

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LAS VEGAS--CES 2013 is underway, and we are roaming the show floor with an eye on the latest and greatest gadgets on display in Sin City. Unlike the days leading up to the show's opening, formal press events are few and far between. Instead, it's every tech writer for...

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With apps and services like Nike FuelBand, Fitbit, and ZEO, we're increasingly generating more and more data in our day-to-day lives. We also, of course, generate a bunch of data by using things like email, calendars, and social media. But until now, there hasn't really been a way to see...

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Planning a gluttonous holiday season and then a health kick in the New Year to balance it out? Well, when you start on the latter, you might want one of Zensorium's Tinké cardiorespiratory monitors to track your progress. The sensor is compatible with any of your old-fashioned 30-pin iOS...

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With so much information readily available at our fingertips, a multitude of devices to access it from and an increasing outside demand for our divided attention, it's easy to short-circuit on the productivity front. But there's a bright spot on the horizon as emerging research out of MIT is...

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Like nerve endings which translate senses into electrical impulses in your nervous system, sensors can translate the physical world into the digital. In the process, they can help humans become more aware of ourselves. The “quantified self” is an increasingly popular term. It means using algorithms to correlate all...

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With the wearable computing and quantified self movements more popular than ever, it’s looking more and more likely that we are approaching the day where we will constantly be collecting data about our every action and the environment around us. Wristbands, headbands, belt clips, and eyewear have been the...

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Breathe in energy and positivity. Breathe out distractions and bad feelings. Envision a calm place and let yourself go there. Who are you kidding? You’re probably racing to or from work along with hundreds of other people and the anxiety level you feel is indescribably high. You may want to...

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It’s the impetus for meltdowns at your desk, the cause of late-night trips to FedEx Kinko’s and that one thing your parents always ask you to fix for them when you’re visiting. It’s the frustrating, fallible printer. But not all printers will make you want to live a paperless life....

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Every two weeks, we’re following Chris Bradley in his Suitcase Startup mission, as he travels around his adopted home of London, armed only with a suitcase and a dream, meeting people who can help him launch his company, Publicate. In episode 4, Chris is preparing for a trip to SXSW and has a...

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Teenage son Bradley watched his mother Suzon go from a classic modern-day soccer mom to a crack addict selling prescription drugs to afford her next score. She became addicted to crack cocaine only two years prior, and in that time any normalcy in her life has been completely lost. On...

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We're a tad skeptical that an app and a sensor can help you destress and "rebalance the mind and emotions," but give HealthMath the benefit of the doubt for the moment. The company's new Inner Balance app and accompanying sensor use emWave technology to monitor stress levels -- which...

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There may be a vague optimistic glow on the horizon, but it’s hardly like sunny boom times have returned to America. So after so many years of economic hardship, and so many unsettling changes to how we work and what sort of jobs are available, how are Americans coping? Has...

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People these days are more connected than ever. But with hyperconnectivity comes health risks. It turns out that when people read email, their breathing patterns can change. After tech visionary Linda Stone, a former top researcher at Microsoft, noticed herself holding her breath while doing email, she conducted a study...

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In what Fujitsu claims is the first pet management service of its kind, the Japanese electronics company said it will launch on Wednesday a new Web-linked pet healthcare management service, called "Wandant", that will allow owners to count their dog's every step, stress levels, and surrounding temperature even when they...